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**offhegoes03** · 10-10-2008, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by joe7f

The most dangerous thing I EVER did was drive when I had been up for 32 hours. I was in a double left turn lane and made a U-turn from the right most turn lane across the other left lane.

Don't drive when you are tired!

--Joey

I hear you on that.. when I was driving back from Nashville after looking at grad schools in April, I kept "drifting off to sleep" at the wheel b/c I was so tired. Seriously, if a cop saw me, he probably would have pulled me over b/c I was swerving. so much I've regretted driving a little too buzzed (probably right around .08) in the past, but I've never been pulled over. Now, I've learned from my mistakes and never drink more than one beer when I'm planning on driving.

**MeTurk** · 10-10-2008, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by joe7f

Not to be the drunk driver's advocate but "I haven't had that much" is a valid reason for driving. Everytime I go out to dinner I usually have a beer or two, and I drive home afterwards (usually at least 90 minutes later). Most charts say I full metabolize one drink an hour (which feels about right). I have blown a 0.08 at the Great American Beer Festival so I know what that feels like and I am never that bad.

No it's not. My best friend was killed by a COP! on the road (he got off no charges) Nobody can say for sure what actually happened to him but I lay it all down to incompetents. The cop was doing 30 miles an hour when he ran my friend over, he just wasn't paying attention. Roads in America are nowhere near as complex as Irish roads, you can never lose concentration and you can't do anything that would interrupt your ability to drive.

When ever I get close to death in my car (I'm not trying to give people the impression that I'm the worlds best driver. If you sat in a a car with me you'd jump out of your skin I do like to drive fast but I'm aware of every gate and byroad) the biggest fear I have is that I'll kill someone else. I'd drink and drive on a closed road no problem I don't care but the thought of putting some family through that grief. I'll never get in a car drunk. I couldn't live with the guilt of killing some one else.

**MolsonGirl** · 10-12-2008, 02:35 AM

I fell asleep at the wheel once.. driving home from my boyfriend's place.. no alcohol involved.. thank goodness for rumble strips.

**Brookers13** · 10-14-2008, 01:50 AM

First time offenses in AZ are minimum 30 days in jail and mandatory ignition interlock. i've never taken so many cabs in my life.

**Canadian Bacon** · 10-14-2008, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MolsonGirl

I fell asleep at the wheel once.. driving home from my boyfriend's place.. no alcohol involved.. thank goodness for rumble strips.

Same. I drifted off at 5am driving back to Ottawa from Montreal. Those rumble strips are pure genius.

**Sijuki** · 10-14-2008, 09:37 PM

I fell asleep driving home from Woodstock with a car full of sleeping people. Funny thing is as I was driving on the rumble strips in my sleep state I was telling myself I shouldn't be driving on the rumble strips. It would have been an interesting event. All because one of the guys wanted to get home so badly.

I've been known to stop off and catch a few z's if I get too tired to drive. Funny thing is when you wake up and try to figure out where the hell you are. I got home one night, parked in the street and was just listening to the radio, fell asleep, woke up and started the car and started driving away as I was trying to figure out where I was.

**pinknic38** · 10-15-2008, 09:18 AM

^yeah I did some similar shit when I was in the process of moving from NC to OH a few months ago, cos I had to make like 4 fucking trips and usually I left after work or if I was on leave I wasn't allowed to sign out til midnight so I'd leave as soon as I'd signed out and I didn't even make it out of NC before I was falling asleep. I stopped at 2 gas stations to sleep in the parking lot for an hour. I was cracked out on like 12 Monsters and a few Doubleshots... in retrospect, I don't know how I don't have an ulcer from that one night lol

**IDDQD** · 10-15-2008, 10:06 AM

hahaaha I've done the same thing when pulling over to sleep a bit. I started hallucinating cause i was so tired, pulled over and put the driver seat back. I kept falling into that really light sleep where you have really insane dreams. So every 5 minutes i was dreaming of crashing my car and wake up, grab the wheel and start cranking it around and screaming.
The next day I kept thinking about how funny it would have been as an outsider watching me fall asleep and wake up screaming at least 4 times.

Lesson learned. If you pull over to sleep, do NOT stay in the driver's seat!

**simply_angelic** · 10-15-2008, 08:21 PM

nice ^

**maracle** · 10-16-2008, 12:13 AM

haha....well I only remember nearly dozing off once before, I drove from Ann Arbor to Dallas nonstop a few years back...took a bit over 24 hours, so I suppose I had been awake for about 28 total. Anyway, that last hour was seriously dicey getting to the outskirts of dallas to get a motel for a few hours sleep.

But then yesterday, I almost nodded off like 3 times in 20 minutes at 1pm!! It was insane, I got 4 hours of sleep that night which isn't a lot but isn't anything I haven't done about a thousand times before. I ate a big lunch then drove home and I was sooooo drowsy. Very weird.

Driving sleepy is probably worse than drunk...

**lauren313** · 10-16-2008, 04:10 AM

^ ^ ^ You drove nonstop for 24 hours?! What are you, a machine?!?!